I teach that all men are mad.
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.
A picture is a poem without words.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
