I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Woman's place is in the wrong.
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
By his deeds we know a man.