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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.  
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain...  
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.  
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of powe...  
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All tha...  
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed of...  
Art and science have their meeting point in method.  
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sw...  
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of fe...  
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.   Dreams
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victor...  
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows uncon...  
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.  
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the h...  
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to ...  
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, ...  
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one g...  
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day c...  
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal ...  
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.  
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.  
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the ...  
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.  
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.  
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live...  
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was...  
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.  
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can disp...  
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the a...  
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yours...  
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.  
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.  
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and i...  
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.  
The pen is mightier than the sword.  
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who re...  
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's ...  
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to c...  
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at ...  
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the applic...  
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man be...  
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, l...  
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.  
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole co...  
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a na...  
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the ...  
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.  
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his lif...  
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a ...  
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.