The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
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There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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In bringing up a child, think of its old age
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
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God has commanded Time to console the unhappy
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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