Earth laughs in flowers.
Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.
Travel is a fools paradise.
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Oftentimes, it’s the way we react to change that is the thing that determines the overall experience.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
People sleep, and when they die they wake.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.
The quieter you become, you more you are able to hear.
Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.
Nothing is black or white.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
