Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

Sleep is better than medicine.

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

Imagine a baseball thrown thru the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail -- names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture -- can you tell what direction it is travelling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present freeze frame of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future).

I drink to make other people interesting.

Many a woman drives a man to drink… water.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.