Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? |
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. |
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. |
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. |
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. |
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. |
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. |
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. |
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. |
Revolutions go not backward. |
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. |
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. |
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. |
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. |
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. |
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
Hitch your wagon to a star. |
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. |
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. |
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. |