Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,-- The streaming red, the deeper blue, Crossed with the moonbeams' pearly white? The blood, the bruise--the blue, the red-- Let Asia's groaning millions speak; The white it tells of colour fled From starving Erin's pallid cheek.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

And heaven had wanted one immortal song.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

It is not in the power of the devil to do so much harm, as God can do good; nay, we may be bold to say, it is not in the will, not in the desire of the devil to do so much harm, as God would do good.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.

C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.