The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Wisdom is better than silver and gold. I was hopeless, now I’m on hope road.
There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Nothing is black or white.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
