That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Abbott's Admonitions: If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.

I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat And the breeches and all that Are so queer.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

People who do the world's real work don't usually wear neckties.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until he starts to work.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

It is the fortune of France.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. ... The Confessions of St. Augustine April 4, 1998 The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity; but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least of all deserve it.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.