Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.

Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.