Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.