If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.