Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.