In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Living well is the best revenge.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.