Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
