When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
We are born poets. we become orators.
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.