The experiments I am about to relate. . . may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Leave no stone unturned.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Correct English is the slang of prigs.
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.