New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.
There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.