People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.