A man is a god in ruins.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Sorrow makes us children again.
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
That after an hour’s silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness… That’s all, it took him an hour to work that out.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits. Distinguish these without falling into names and classifications.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
All his life has he looked away to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
