Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.