If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Habit is stronger than nature.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak--little thought we pay To that sweet bitter world we know by day.

There was a break at the prison yesterday. An ex-fortune teller, described as being short with dark hair, broke out of prison. The public is advised to be on the lookout for a small medium at large.

An evil gain equals a loss.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Philippians 4:2

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.

There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.

Light is the task when many share the toil.

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.