It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.

We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.

The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, andwill still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

There’s a moment in everybody’s life when you’re hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes

Rather be alone, than being with someone who is aloof.

I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.