Beauty rests on necessities.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
After a few months’ acquaintance with European coffee, one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
When you place yourself in a position to help another, you will discover your greater capabilities.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
