Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.