O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
People fail forward to success.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.