Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.

The world is run by C students.

You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!

...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.

To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.

This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon.