I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.