You don’t create things, you discover things.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
