It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to foll...
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we...
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens...
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue,...
Clever men are good, but they a...
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under...
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but...
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes m...
Be not a slave o...
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die d...
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delay...
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are...