All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.
There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.
Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down. " Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.