It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

We acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success.

There are things in life worth dying for. Toothpaste isn't one of them.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent.

It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.