It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.