The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.
What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
My emancipation don’t fit your equation.
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
