Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.