Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other cultures do.

He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.

Those who praise God abide in victory.

We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

Sleep is no mean art.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.