Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it.
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.