To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Running a business is a serious thing.

If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.

Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.

The playful search for beauty.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

Ultimately, I'm fine with everything that I've done.

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.