“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.

I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.

Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.

I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.

On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.