No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Diseases crucify the soul of man attenuate our bodies dry them wither them rivel them up like old apples make them as so many Anatomies.

Penny wise pound foolish.

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

Birds of a feather, flock together.

The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Physically, I feel extremely well, perhaps fitter than ever.

The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

A holiday isnt a holiday without plenty of freedom and fun.

If the Latterday Saints had not abandoned plural marriage, they would have remained a fringe religion and would never have moved into mainstream American culture. Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thrives. It is one of the fastest growing religions in the country and is the most successful American-born religion.

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.