We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.
If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.
If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
