To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
Self-command is the main elegance.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Platonic love is love from the neck up.
Who can refute a sneer?
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
I teach that all men are mad.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
The body never lies.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.