It is your human environment that makes climate

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.