Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
