The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.