Wisdom begins in wonder.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Stay with me,’ he said, ‘until the sun goes out, the seas are parched, and the wind draws its last breath.
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
The true poem is the poet’s mind.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
