What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

I made a lot of mistakes but they were correctable mistakes.

Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

I know I did the right thing, but no one would ever understand.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.