If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

Everyone has something they can't live without.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

I love the traveling, of course. Not the flying, but the actual traveling.

Belief is only the beginning.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.