Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Renown and repose do not go together.

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

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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