Security will produce danger.
A vow is a snare for sin.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
New arts destroy the old.
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is false, or at least incomplete.
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
I am the captain of my soul.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
