The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.