Leave the rest to the gods.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
