He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

Money comes and goes, but people last for a lifetime.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. -Sally Koch.

Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.