Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.