The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
A wise man travels to discover himself.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.
On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.