Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
When you are finished changing, you're finished.
Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.
He that best understands the world, least likes it.
Venison and venery defeated me.
To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it’ I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.
While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.
Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
Security without liberty is called prison.
You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.