Anger is short madness
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
The world is its own magic.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits. Distinguish these without falling into names and classifications.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
