Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele: Fine pictures suit in frames as fine, Consistencie's a jewell. For thee and me coarse cloathes are best, Rude folks in homelye raiment drest, Wife Joan and goodman Robin.

And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face, I now Say what I think.

A hat not much worse for wear.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

Hindsight is an exact science.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.