924 quotes found
“Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!”
“The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.”
“As soon as there is life there is danger.”
“Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”
“Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.”
“Self-command is the main elegance.”
“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”
“Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.”
“There is a crack in everything God has made.”
“To be simple is to be great.”
“It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”
“Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.”
“We never touch but at points.”
“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.”
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
“Sorrow makes us all children again.”
“There are some men above grief and some men below it.”
“Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.”
