“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.”

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.