Let us try what love will do.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Eat therefore to live, and do not live to eat.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.
If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
Logic is like the sword
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better been left to the men.
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
