He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
