We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.