One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Brigham Young

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Melanie Klein

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster