It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.