Mysteries are due to secrecy.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
All colors will agree in the dark.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
