Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this, our life!
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Dinner, a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.