“As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”
Good“The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”
Best“As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”
Good“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
Truth“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.”
Great“The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.”
Men“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Motivational“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
Men“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
Life“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Government“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Life“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
Friendship“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Dreams“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”
Women“I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Friendship“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.”
Truth“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
Art“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”
Good“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
Life“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”
Men“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Life“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.”
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