We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Time wounds all heels.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
