A vow is a snare for sin.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.
If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
The sky was the color of hard crimson, dripping down a canvas, the moon splashed silver across red. Her soothing balm healing my soul in swathes of calmness, I breathe in her tides and let my body be washed ashore, lying in the sands of eternity.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
