Opportunity makes a thief.
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
The years teach much what the days never knew.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
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.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
