Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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.

We glorify God only as we celebrate people

We are the last generation of humans on Earth!

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.