The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.

Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.

Angry is ugly

You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

People love to see people fall.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.