He laughs best who laughs last.

Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

DisAppointments are often His Appointments.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.

He loved the treason, but hated the traitor.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.