“Consult duty not events.”
“Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.”
“What is reading, but silent conversation.”
“Great men always pay deference to greater.”
“A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”
“We talk on principal, but act on motivation.”
“There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.”
“I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.”
“O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.”
“We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.”
“No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.”
“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”
“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
“The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”
“Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.”
“A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.”
“I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
“We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.”
“People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.”
“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.”
“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”
“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.”