Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.
One always believes one’s own town to be more stupid than any other.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
