The hands behind me gave me another shove.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.