Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.

If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.