“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

To a young heart everything is fun.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.