Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us be grateful to Adam our benefactor. He cut us out of the “blessing of idleness,” and won for us the “curse of labor.”
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
Knowledge is worth more than anything there is in the world; it’s what makes great men and good men.
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
Jim said bees wouldn’t sting idiots; but I didn’t believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn’t sting me.
It took six thousand years to produce her; her like will not be seen in the earth again in fifty thousand.
It is elegant. And it is a fine thought, too – marrying religion to medicine, instead of medicine to the undertaker in the old way; for religion and medicine properly belong together, they being the basis of all spiritual and physical health.
It is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.
