Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
