Anger is a brief lunacy.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
For every why he had a wherefore.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.
Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
