A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it