What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

You cannot carry your whole marriage on your back and call it, compromising. It takes two willing hearts to effectively compromise.

Daily memorise one passage of Scripture.

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.