Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.
Character is itself a fortune.
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.