The eye is easily frightened.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Nothing does more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
By indignities men come to dignities.
