Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.