Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.