The Lion King

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

When the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.