When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does.

Not our activity for Him but our captivity to Him!

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. "Careful with fire," is good advice we know "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

All diseases run into one, old age.

don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T. On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.