What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it is something you carry in you heart.

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.

For style beyond the genius never dares.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi.

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

life is hard.

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.