I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.