What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to appreciate his efforts.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.