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"Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence."
"What maintains one vice would bring up two children."
"You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns."
"Great hopes make everything great possible"
"The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience."
"The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing"
"I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous."
"Getting it done is my reward."
"In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?""
"None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error."
"When you are done changing, you're done."
"One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts."
"Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband."
"When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth."
"If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel"
"If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today."
"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."
"The proof of gold is fire."
"Look before, or you'll find yourself behind."
"The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one."