All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
Granting our wish is one of Fate’s saddest jokes.
Idleness induces caprice.
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the light of the oncoming train.
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
That best academy, a mother’s knee.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.