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.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
While there's life, there's hope.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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