We are free to yield to truth.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Whatever limits us we call fate.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.
