Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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