There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.
You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.
The only secret people keep is immortality.
However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it.
It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.