Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns..

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears..

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may i….

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry..

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead..

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avo….

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House..

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom..

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of….

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the g….

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have dre….

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon i….

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness..

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues..

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy..

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one..

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary..

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he con….

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look b….

Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And ….

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom..