“The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.”

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.

I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.