Beauty is a mute deception.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

America has the greatest people on earth in our military, but they don't have the right equipment and their equipment is old.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.