My life is a struggle.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Better is the enemy of good.
Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
