Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
True friendship is never serene.
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
A prudent wife is from the Lord.
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.