Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.