"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

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

"And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? --High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."

"I do not know everything; still many things I understand."

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

"A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key."

"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."