 The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. |
| Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. |
| How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. |
| A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. |
| Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. |
| The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. |
| There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. |
| In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. |
| Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. |
| A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. |
| Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. |
| Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. |
| O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. |
| Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. Topics: Anger |
| Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. |
| No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. |
| The easiest person to deceive is one's self. |
| When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. |
| If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. |
| It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. |
