Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Solitude is a greater treasure than wealth.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that Bush lied and people died, and we were all over the Middle East.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

Let us honor the blood of Jesus Christ every moment of our lives, and we will be sweet in our souls.