Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.