A wise man, to accomplish his end, may even carry his foe on his shoulder.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.