The sun is but a morning star.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
