Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
For we put the power in the people.
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
The eye is easily frightened.
