It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

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.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

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.

All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realize

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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