Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

Where our thoughts dwell, so becomes our reality. Choose wisely!

One day, Lorna, I will dance this waltz with you again.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?