Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, To mask their brows and hide their infamy; But I alone, alone must sit and pine, Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine, Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans, Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Have to go like a rushing racehorse.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.

When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.

If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.

Knowledge is power.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not have God in their pocket. We cannot answer every question that any bright boy in the back row might ask. We have only light enough to walk by.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.