The surest poison is time.
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Our best history is still poetry.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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