eat my shorts.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair.

I play with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.