“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.”
“Act,— act in the living Present!”
“Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think.”
“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.”
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight.”
“Into each life some rain must fall.”
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
“All wealth is the product of labor.”
“We are like chameleons; we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are about us.”
“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
“Where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”