Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
