Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
A young person knows the rules but the old person knows the exceptions.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.