Logic is like the sword
For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.
