O imitators, you slavish herd!
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
