"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other."

"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."

"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible."

"The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led."

"When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on."

"Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief."

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."

"Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."

"Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,He's fit for public authority."

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."

"The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!"