A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
