Guests and fish start to stink after two days.

I play with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.

Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they be not preserved in the honey of love. Love is sufficient of itself; it pleases by itself and on its own account. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit. It is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love that I may love. Love is a great thing provided it recurs to its beginning, returns to its origin, and draws always from that Fountain which is perpetually in flood. Of all the feelings and affections of the soul, love is the only one by which the creature, though not on equal terms, is able to respond to the Creator and to repay what it has received from Him. For when God loves us He desires nothing but to be loved. He loves for no other reason, indeed, than that He may be loved, knowing that by their love itself those who love Him are blessed.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.

Consumers are statistics, customers are people.

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I feel like a rat in a cage.

Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse, And on my middle fingernails To run my earthly course! . . . . I'm going to have a flowing tail! I'm going to have a mane! I'm going to stand fourteen hands high On the Psychozoic plain!"

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet; To seek what ancient sages sought, Physic and food in sour and sweet, To take what passes in good part, And keep the hiccups from the heart.