It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Precaution is better than cure.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Live dangerously and you live right.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.