I invent nothing, I rediscover.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

I have head the nightingale herself.

I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, It may be death.

"Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."

Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.

if you lie down with dogs, you rise up with fleas.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

That which costs little is less valued.

Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition., equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims's confidence -- suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to the covetous, delight to the sensuous, and a false appearance of piety to the pious -- and a winner of souls ought to act in the same cautious and skillful way.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Without a country, I am not a man.