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

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.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

If it didn't work out today, don't feel incapable of achieving it and give up. Learn from it without losing faith and enthusiasm. Tomorrow is another opportunity to try again with a better approach.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher.

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

He who hesitates is poor.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.