Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
The worst men often give the best advice.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Always let losers have their words.
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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