An index is a great leveller.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities – a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
If men be good, government cannot be bad.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
