Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Old friends are best.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

A gallant man is above ill words.

On the other side of worry you find hope

I'm an open book in a closed room.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is the only personal development book that does not mention it.

I like to say, but saying is too much." We understand not the same.

Weekends are life’s gift to those who hate their jobs.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.