Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

A society needs famous people

A godlikeness of character is the Christian’s proper heritage in this earthly walk.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.