Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Your life becomes precious when you use your thoughts and actions to make someone precious in your life.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

A measured response trumps a triggered reaction every time. Breathe first.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power