A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Our errors are steps on the way.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.