“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
“The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.”
“It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.”
“What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.”
“Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!”
“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.”
“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.”
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
“There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.”
“Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.”
“How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.”
“The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.”
“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.”
“Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.”
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.”
“How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.”
“Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.”
“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”
“When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.”
“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
“Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.”
“The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.”
“Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.”