Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords