Joy doesn’t exist in the world, it exists in us.
On second thought, it’s a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it’s easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.
There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn’t allow it to interfere with one’s work.
If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.
An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
A true friend is the greatest possesion.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
He that would travel much, should eat little.
Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
Praise little, dispraise less.
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!
Change is the only constant in life. One’s ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.
An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that “the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.”
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
Necessity is our quickest excuse.