Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.