All people are the same; only their habits differ.
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
People with virtue must speak out; people who speak are not all virtuous.
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.
Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.
If I feel physically as If the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.