I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.