Mysteries are due to secrecy.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist’s custom.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
Logic is like the sword
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
