Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
Silence gives the proper grace to women
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
Persistence is nothing more than staying in motion
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.
The singing was something I got from my father.