Knowledge is power.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
Remember who you are.
