Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul.

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

If you love someone when you're 20 and you carry that love with you until you're 90, it's not going to be the same dynamic.

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.