It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.

What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.

And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humble pride the lesson just By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Mine is better than ours.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Some things that cost $5 to buy several years ago now costs $10 just to repair.

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.