Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
A useless life is an early death.
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained, what there they found, - Freedom to worship God.
Kissing don't last: cookery do.
What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.