“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”

“The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.”

“Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive.”

“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”

“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.”

“What was it like… to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?”

“I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.”

“The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.”

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”