Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Common sense is very uncommon.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Whatever advice you give, be short.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.
Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Mistakes are their own instructors.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.