I teach that all men are mad.
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Coercion is evil precisely because itÂ…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
When you place yourself in a position to help another, you will discover your greater capabilities.
I want to be all used up when I die.
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
If we don’t occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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.
