There’s many witty men whose brains can’t fill their bellies.
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, “Without vanity I may say,” etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
Everybody’s human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.
Hope of gain lessens pain.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What’s begun in anger ends in shame.
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.
If your head is made of wax, don’t walk in the sun.
If you can’t pay for a thing, don’t buy it. If you can’t get paid for it, don’t sell it.
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise.
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith...
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.