Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.- Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
- Well done, is better than well said.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain so.
- If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
- Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?
- The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
- He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.
- Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
- Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
- Half a truth is often a great lie.
- At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
- Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
- He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
- If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
- Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
- One today is worth two tomorrows.
- Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
- There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
- When in doubt, don’t.
- Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
- The things which hurt, instruct.
- To err is human; to repent, divine; to persist, devilish.
- There never was a good war nor a bad peace.
- When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
- He that rises late must trot all day.
- If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
(ed. – Photo credit: Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
