You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
He laughs best who laughs last.
Business is likeoil. It won't mix with anything but business.
If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.