Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
