Security will produce danger.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Round numbers are always false.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
Every wall is a door.
New arts destroy the old.
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.
The eye is the jewel of the body.
