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

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.

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.

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

Faith is receiving a blessing before you have seen it.Wisdom is taking care of the blessing once you have received it.

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

I dress like a 30-year-old woman.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.