Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built as we discern.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Belief in law is essential to the philosophical conception of prayer. If the universe were a mere chaos of chances, or if it were a result of absolute necessity, there would be no place for intelligent prayer; but if it is under the control of a Lawgiver, wise and merciful, not a mere manager of material machinery, but a true Father of all, then we can come to such a Being with our requests -- not in the belief that we change His great plans, nor that any advantage could result from this if it were possible, but that these plans may be made in his boundless wisdom and love to meet our necessities.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien that the more you see it the better you like it.

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane.

Things do not change; we change.

Do what you love and love what you're doing, and you'll never work another day in your life.

When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed: So all for love we paired in Spring-- Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

The rain in the Ukraine falls mainly not on the plains.

Do bad and remember, do good and forget.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

c'est la vie.