O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14

Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.

Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou make him to be any such thing, or make him to do any such thing, as thou in thy proportion shouldst not be, or shouldst not do. And shouldst thou curse any man that had never offended, never transgrest, never trespass thee? Can God have done so? Will God curse man, before man have sinned?