There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ‘What is truth?’

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion...

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons...

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Happiness is no laughing matter

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s

“Honesty is the best policy,” but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.