A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Acting is happy agony.
Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
A useless life is an early death.
When things come to the worst, they generally mend.
Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God; and like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight, as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.