For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Moonlight is sculpture.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

Quotations from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise.