A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.

It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

The lengthening shadows wait The first pale stars of twilight.

Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

A man of one book.

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!

Monotheism is a gift from the gods.

If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.

Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the mind.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.