Riches are for spending.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is false, or at least incomplete.
When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it’s too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.
It always seems impossible until its done.
