The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

You must look into people as well as at them.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

“the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world.”

“What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.”

“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.”

"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."

A born king is a very rare being.