If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Blame is safer than praise.

looks like she was hit in the head with a bag of nickles.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude now; our individuality begins with it; our personality grows strong because of it; and we know, if we know anything, that while the more we approach the good the more we please God, at the same time the more we approach the good the more nobly distinctive, the more beautifully individual do our characters become.

The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.