But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. .

People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.