Friends are thieves of time.
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The more you know the less you understand.
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
