Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millennia.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

"Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

To pile Ossa upon Pelion.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Through wisdom is a house built, and by understanding it is established, and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.

Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.