If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.