The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.