Reality is a sliding door.
I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
Consequences are unpitying.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good;be good for something.All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Sir, I have no objection to a man’s drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment.
