Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.