Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
There's small choice in rotten apples.
When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.