A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.