Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 

One of the advantages of renting a house is that you can easily change it if you don’t like it.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. 

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms, are all very good words for the lips.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.