When asked how long I've worked here, I replied, "since the day they threatened to fire me."
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
Law is a bottomless pit.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.
It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spenser is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.