- When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble
of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it.
You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen
it.
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the
wrong mental attitude.
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters
of principle, stand like a rock.
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but
in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things,
the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be
known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world
looking at you and act accordingly.
- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there
is no hook beneath it.
- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long
as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere
consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional
men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and
of all the exercises walking is the best.
- It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and
occupation which give happiness.
- I believe...that every human mind feels pleasure in
doing good to another.
- I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable,
too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
- When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry,
a hundred.
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