We are free to yield to truth.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
I teach that all men are mad.
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
