Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.
They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.
Philosophy … should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
Hope like the gleaming taper’s light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.
The man recover’d of the bite The dog it was that died.
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn’d the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail’d with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain’d to pray.
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn’d the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain’d to pray.
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch’d and wept he pray’d and felt for all.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
I’ll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.