Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.
There is a great deal of human nature in people.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
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