Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.
A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.
When I look to the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes.
Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
He that is down need fear no fall.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers, the more they did for us.
Plodding wins the race.
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.
Worries go down better with soup than without.