A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Discouragement is the opposite of courage.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

Law is a bottomless pit.

What care if the day Be turned to gray, What care if the night come soon! We may choose the pace Who bow for grace, At the Inn of the Silver Moon.

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara.

Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.

When my three-year-old son opened the birthday gift from his grandmother, he discovered a water pistol. He squealed with delight and headed for the nearest sink. I was not so pleased. I turned to Mom and said, "I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember how we used to drive you crazy with water guns?" Mom smiled and then replied . . . "I remember.".

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Any one can count the seeds in an apple.. Only God can count the apples in a seed.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.