Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!<br /> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it<br /> That we can die but once to serve our country!

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

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