He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
I don’t like needing anyone for anything.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
