For knowledge itself is power.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland. There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night avail themselves of your lips. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
She stepped out barefoot on to the grass, her soul naked, sun beating to her heart’s rhythm, bathing her skin. In her mind, she had already escaped.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
