Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
A jug fills drop by drop.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
