Our deeds still travel with us from after, and what we have been makes us what we are.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Those who trust us educate us.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
Best friend, my well - spring in the wilderness!
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Perhaps the most delightful friendship are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Hatred is like fire - it makes even light rubbish deadly.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Til what I love determines how I love.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
Speech may be barren, but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a restful of eggs.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco - pipes of those who diffuse it, it proves nothing but the bad tastes of the smoker.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
The Years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
It's them as take advantage that gets advantage in this world.
Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
Necessity does the work of courage.
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happened that never can happen.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to revere.
Tis God given skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
It's but little good you'll go a watering the last year's crop.
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