"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

"The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas."

"Happily ever after doesn't come free, but I'd give anything to have it."

"Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it."

"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."

"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie."

"The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here."

"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems."

"Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."

"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness."