Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.