In charity there is no excess.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
The sense of an entailed disadvantage – the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.
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.
Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
