I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.