Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.