How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.

Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.

My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.