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

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.