Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.