Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Cultivate kindness today and always.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
