Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?
How can one be well…when one suffers morally?
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.
