“Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.”

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

A relationship shouldn’t require you to walk on eggshells. But if you have to? boil the damn egg.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.