It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
What is human is immortal!
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
The sunshine of the mind.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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