"I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."

"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."

"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work."

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect."

"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."