Let us try what love will do.
Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.
Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.
If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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.
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…
