Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Logic is like the sword
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
