No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.
These are the times that try men's souls.
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
The logic of the heart is absurd.
Honour follows those who flee it.
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.
Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails, you have another meeting.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.