Revolutions go not backward.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
We have more than we use.
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.
Logic is like the sword
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
