Opportunity makes a thief.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
When you know better, you do better.
It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.
The only wealth is life.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Give, even if you only have little.
Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.
If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
