Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.
You can't sit on two chairs at once.
If you throw a stone in a pond. . . the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course. . . In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.
Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.