All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.

In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.

John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.

Earth: mostly harmless

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

I feel the need... the need for speed.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.