Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Stupidity is something you can only partly save people from.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
We are wiser than we know.
