A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

The lie is a condition of life.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Resist much. Obey little.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.