I teach that all men are mad.
Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
Anger is short madness
Every old poem is sacred.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
A picture is a poem without words.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
People sleep, and when they die they wake.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there’s always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only – not from its privileged classes.