Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. -John Paul Richter.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!

The act of giving is more important than the merit of the receiver.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.