Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.

All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Don't be afraid of tomorrow, for God has already been there.

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

Red velvet room rolls me in its mouth and swallows me to sleep **.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.