Knowledge is power.
For knowledge itself is power.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to carry it off.
The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! … Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
