It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.