Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.