The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Let me give so much time to the improvement of myself that I shall have no time to criticize others.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in the end, [Jude] calls the attention of the faithful to the last day. For the hope of that alone ought to sustain us, so that we may at no time despond; otherwise, we must necessarily fail every minute.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Mercy often inflicts death.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.