“One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.”

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

May you live all the days of your life.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

If you have the ability to turn bad situations into good ones, then you are lucky.

I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don’t have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines.

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

The tide has pulled the storm from my soul again. But in all that is right or wrong and pure, there is you, and your stunning ability to blur the lines and just be.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.