We are free to yield to truth.
Gold will be slave or master.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
