Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Speech is the small change of silence.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Caricature is rough truth.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

Bring the army of the faithful through.

Passions spin the plot We are betrayed by what is false within.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.