Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

I'm an American; I'm not an African-American. I'm an American.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.