The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

I say one evil empire down...one to go.