It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
Security will produce danger.
Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
We are wiser than we know.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
