Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird. That’s your strength.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God’s sake. But nothing in us unlike him, can please him.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

The public must and will be served.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.