Be your own judge and you will be happy.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.