To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Leave the rest to the gods.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
