Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.