Friends are thieves of time.
The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.
It always seems impossible until its done.
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
