To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the fri...
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own hands. He was willing to work in a ditc...