Confound those who have said our remarks before us.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

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.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.