A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.