In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Events tend to recur in cycles…
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
I want to be all used up when I die.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
God’s first creature, which was light.
