A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.