Few save the poor feel for the poor.
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.
I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because it is a country of exiles and immigrants and newcomers. There are no walls, in that sense. There is always the sense that traditions are being made as we speak. So you can slot yourself in. If you are living at a distance in society, this is one of the most congenial societies to live in.