“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”

“No rose without a thorn.”

“He who can lick can bite.”

“The price spoils the pleasure.”

“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”

“Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.”

“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do...”

“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organi...”