Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
Grief is itself a med'cine.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.
Every minute starts an hour.
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
There's no map, there's no master plan, there's just people.
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
One can acquire everything in solitude but character.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500,000,000 years ago.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
I am because my little dog knows me.