“Words have a longer life than deeds.”

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

Even genius is tied to profit.

The test of any man lies in action.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

The noblest of the elements is water.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

I will be small in small things, great among great.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Let them go, but keep yourself whole.

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

I want you to bury your sorrows in the depths of my embrace.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.