Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

Woman's place is in the wrong.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

It is wealth to be content.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

By-and-by never comes.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness...

Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.