A vow is a snare for sin.
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Never read any book that is not a year old.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Riches are for spending.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
