The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

To know your ruling passion examine your castles in the air.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy it ought to be completely voluntary

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.