Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Business is the salt of life.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The quieter you become, you more you are able to hear.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.