Actually I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

Those who can command themselves command others.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice, and while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

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