Every clarification breeds new questions.

The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Clothes make the man.

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Any man who laughs at women's clothes has never paid the bill for them.

Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.

But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since time will not stay, We'll add night to the day, Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.