I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
All his life has he looked away to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.
Being is the great explainer.
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
