Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

You are a whole lot better today than yesterday.

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.