No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised. - Isaac D'Israeli,

Rob me the exchequer. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.

No happy time is really gone, if it leaves a special memory.

shooter's bounce(basketball cliche).

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

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is profoundly ignorant.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.

O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.