A man is a god in ruins.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Be an opener of doors.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
