The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

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

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Every advantage has its tax

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

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.