I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.
The great thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
Make good use of bad rubbish.
I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.