“The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.”

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Delay always breeds danger.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

War is at its best barbarism.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

The greatest thing about America is this country is the place everyone wants to be.

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.

Walking is man’s best medicine.