Friends are thieves of time.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men’s minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
