We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!. . . He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.
I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.
I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.
It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.