Anger is a brief lunacy.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
I teach that all men are mad.
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.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.
