Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Anger is short madness

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Friends are treasures.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

I teach that all men are mad.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

; "We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow![Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.