Anger is a brief lunacy.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
We are free to yield to truth.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
It is proved…that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.
She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
