"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."

"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."

"A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join."

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."

"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."

"I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny."

"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come."

"Touch not; taste not; handle not."

"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"

"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."

"Necessity makes even the timid brave."