If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

The best revenge is a vow to never be like the one who hurt you.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.

Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

For he who loves must live.

So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.