In charity there is no excess.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
To choose time is to save time.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
