In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.