Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
‘T is the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
