Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.