The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Man is what he believes.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.