Dare to think for yourself.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
We live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits not because recompense is a pleasure for them, but because obligation is a pain.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
