The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
Nothing ages like laziness.
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
I did not fall into love - I rose into love.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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