Riches are for spending.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!
Looking? Found someone you have, eh?
We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
