In charity there is no excess.
Nothing does more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
