Reality is a sliding door.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
An empire is an immense egotism.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
So far as a person thinks; they are free.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder – in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
