If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Observe all men, thyself most.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Trust one who has tried.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The thing I fear most is fear.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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