Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
When you’ve told someone that you’ve left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
