The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

...I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.