Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms, are all very good words for the lips.

We are so very 'umble.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: then it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Religion is a matter of faith. Science has to face challenges at every step.

Mistakes happen unknowingly. But they teach us a whole lot of things.

Festivals are meant relieve the stress of our everyday lives.

Being humble could be dangerous. Humility may be mistaken for submission.

The things that we use today are products of our cultural heritage and economic development.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.