Anger is short madness
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Gold will be slave or master.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.
Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
