Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
