wisdom Quotes

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.