Patience is moral elasticity.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
All things come to him who waits - even justice.
Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.
Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.
Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.
True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
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