Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.