When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
