If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer, but rather what we miss.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

He who has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

Thought works in silence, so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence.