“No blessing lasts forever.”

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

If you want to do something, do it!

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

I hear it’s better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth.

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

THINK TWICE before using hot ‘merchandise’!!!

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be