Like mother, like daughter.
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but "You are as good as I am."
I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.
All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.
I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.