The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
Truth allows no choice.
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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