Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so...

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done...

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is t...

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Everybody lives for something better to come.

One of the best safeguards of our hopes I have suggested is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them to face them directly not with despair but with the creative in...

Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.