Let us try what love will do.
I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.
It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.
It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable – any real insight or broad human sentiment.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
