It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
If gymnastics were easy, it would be called football.” “10% talent, 90% hard work.” “Energy and persistence conquer all things.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.