Clever tyrants are never punished.
I always feel excited when I can do something that’s about what I believe in.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
