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

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.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But, you can either run from it or learn from it.

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

I just want to be rich and famous.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

I'd hug you all day if I could.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.

I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a date and thinking, 'I'm gonna be a dork,' picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.