Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.