No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
The eye is easily frightened.
