It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
