A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.