I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.
Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
My reputation grows with every failure.
