I teach that all men are mad.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Anger is short madness
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Are you using your pain as an excuse or as a source of strength?
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
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.
