Genius Borrows nobly.
The only prudence in life is concentration.
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
To delay justice, is injustice.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
