“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you’re the devil in disguise.

Angels on earth exist I know it.

Dogs and angels are not very far apart.

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I’d been touched by an angel.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.