Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!

Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Better never than late.

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Fear leads you directly into the path of that which you fear.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.