He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
