An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

God has created the world in play.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves