"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."

"Put out the light."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower."

"McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_."

"This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."