Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of...
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
We are reformers in spring and summer in autumn and winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. Reform is affirmative conservatism negative conservatism goes for comf...