If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.

Dusty bibles lead to dirty lives.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.