The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want. You will attract the divine force to bring it into existence.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

The way to have power is to take it.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.

Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart

George Washington had a tough second term.