Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them..

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of h….

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness..

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income..

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking..

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others..

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce..

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about..

Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs tho….

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him..

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know so….

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not..

Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's….

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there som….

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave..

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows..

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too health….

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying,….

I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experien….

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase..