In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
A picture is a poem without words.
We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits not because recompense is a pleasure for them, but because obligation is a pain.
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
As Puppets are to Men, and Babies to Children, so is Man’s Workmanship to God’s: We are the Picture, he the Reality.
