Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.

It is hard to read a cartoon aloud.

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

Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.

Money: a businessman earns it, an economist learns it, a banker turns it, a politician burns it, and a wise man spurns it.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen Slumbering the festal hours away, While Youth disports in that enchanting scene; Till on some fated day Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.