Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Every advantage has its tax

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.