Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.