Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Freedom can occur only through education.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Humility is truth.
Lost time is never found again.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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