Knowledge is power.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
