My appetite comes to me while eating.

And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce Lie still without a fee.

"Poor deer," quoth he, "thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much." -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is ... by teaching every man to think for himself.

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.