Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.