The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.

This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done, Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner, The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow, Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand, Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.

To cool a hot attitude, apply nice. To melt a cold attitude, address warmly.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: no two individuals are alike, and both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.