Proverbs are potted wisdom.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Sheep and goats and cowsgather 'round a manger bedto awe at a babe.

In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.

I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.'

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.