Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

He will give the devil his due.

Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will...

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd.

A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.