So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.

I see you have a singing face--a heavy, dull, sonata face.

Blushed like the waves of hell.

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The cattle upon a thousand hills.

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

And solid pudding against empty praise.

Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn. http://www.sathyasai.org.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.