Proverbs are potted wisdom.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.