It is always our inabilities that vex us.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.