It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

Studious of elegance and ease.

Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the sky sharing fire!

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter! I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought! Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed!

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I Thes. 5:21), upon [the penalty of] the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.