Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.

There are three ways to obtain wealth: inheritance, luck, and hard work. None is guaranteed, but you have no influence over the first two.

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

Yet will she blush, here be it said, To bear her secrets so bewrayed.

If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, we would not have as many problems. People have to get off their duffs and participate.

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain: But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Your neighbour is the man who needs you.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.