O imitators, you slavish herd!
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
Some people are stuck on who I was that who I am never even had a chance.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
What you can’t pay back you pay forward.
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
