Gold will be slave or master.
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
