I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

I have fans all around the world.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.