The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
The mathematics of high achievement.
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
See deep enough, and you see musically.
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.