He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

In my society we know how to say things, but we don't know how to realize them. In my society everyone has a perfect personality in public, and a dirty one behind the curtain.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead where there were no paths.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'