Quotes to inspire and reflect

What passing bells for these who die as cattle Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness.

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Learn that the present hour alone is men.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Round numbers are always false.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy when work is a duty, life is slavery.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Whose woods these are I think I know.

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.