Don't count your eggs before they've hatched.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

What's that got to do with the price of rice in China?

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely forgetting the name of our God and holding up our hands to some strange god. For every man has something in which he hopes, on which he leans, to which he retreats and retires, with which he fills up his thoughts in empty spaces of time, when he is alone, when he lies sleepless on his bed, when he is not pressed with other thoughts; to which he betakes himself in sorrow or trouble, as that from which he shall draw comfort and strength -- his fortress, his citadel, his defence; and has not this a good right to be called his god? Man was made to lean on the Creator; but if not on Him, then he leans on the creature in one shape or another. The ivy cannot grow alone: it must twine round some support or other; if not the goodly oak, then the ragged thorn -- round any dead stick whatever, rather than have no stay or support at all. It is even so with the heart and affections of man; if they do not twine around God, they must twine around some meaner thing.

Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.

I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Splendidly mendacious.

I am the master of my unspoken words, and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.