Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
