- Grammar is the analysis of language.
- I have great fiath in fools- self-confidence, my friends wil call it.
- Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart.
- Man's real life is hapy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
- Years of love have been forgotten in the hatred of a minute.
- Unthought-like thougths are the souls of thougth.
- Whenever, on account of its vagueness, I am dissatisfied with a conception of the brain , I resort forthwith to the pen for the purpose of obtaining , throug its aid, the necessary form, consequence and precision.
- Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- The play is the tragedy, MAN , and its hero the conqueror, Worm.
- Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is , some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly , and with diligence and attention.
- Libraries are as the shrines where all the realics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
- A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable and should besecured , becaused they seldom return.
- He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself.
- If money be not your servant, it will be your master, The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth , as that may be said to possess him.
- Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and invonveniences. Therefore , it is ill in counsel , good in execution.
- In reading , we hold converse with the wise; in the business of life, generally with the foolish.
- Men must know , that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels ot be lookers-on.
- I love wisdom more than she love me.
- Grief shold be the instructor of the wise.
- He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot , is a fool ; he who dares not, is a slave.
- Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
- Friendship is love without his wings.
- Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep, for here there is such matter for all feeling: Man , you pendulum between a smile and tear.
- Hatred is the madeness of the heart.
- It is strange but true; truth is alwasy strange, stranger than fiction.
- Adverdsity is the path of truth.
- Perfect truth is possible only with knowldege, and in knowldege the whole essence of the thing operates on the soul and is joined essentially to it.
- Conceit makes men a nuisance to one aother;the conceited man relates only his own great deeds, and only the evil ones of others.
- Conceited man delights in the presence of his inferiors, who will gape at his perfections and exploits; and becomes at last the victim of those who praise him.
- A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
- Books which teach and speak of whatever is highest and best are equally sacred, whatever be the tongue in which they are written, or the nation to which they belong.
- Surely human affairs woould be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than suffficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
- Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
- So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he dertermined not to do it : And consequently, so long it is impossible to him that he should do it.
- Sadness diminishes or hinders a man's power of action.
- Avarice, ambition, and lust are nothing but species of madness, althoug not enumerated among diseases.
- When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his master.
- Pride is a kind of pleasure produced by a man thinking too well of himself.
- to be what we are , and to becme what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- I think , therefore I am.
- The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
- When any one has offended me, I try to raise may soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
- In order to imporve the mind, we ought less to learn than to comtemplate.
- In teaching there should be no class disttinctions.
- Shall I teach you what knowledge is ? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you don't know a thing, to allow that you don't know it. This is knowledge.
- Four virtues characteristic of great man; humility , respect for superiors, graciousness toward dependents, and a sense of justice toward subordinates.
- Wisdom has no doubts. Manhood at its best has no concerns. Courage is without fear.
- A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.
- Forget injuries; never forget kindness.
- He who offends against heaven has none to whom he can pray.
- Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
- Do not horry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
- Worry not taht no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing .
- Act with kindness; but do not expect gratitude.
- Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
- The wise man is informed in what is right. The inferior man is informed in what will pay.
- Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
- I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outwar appearances.
- If, when you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there , what is there to worry about, what is there to fear?
- Every sin is more injury to him who does than to him who suffers it.
- Cursed is every one who places his hope in man.
- The knowledge of Divine things may be properly called wisdom, and the knowledge of human affairs may properly receive the name of knowledge.
- Conscinece and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbours.
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- As the eye of the body cannot see unless it is helped by the brightness of light, so neither can a man, even if he is most righteous, live righteously unless he be helped by the eternal light of justice.
- It is the duty of good education to arrive at wisdom by means of a difinite order.
- We can know what God is not , but we cannot know what he is .
- Habits if not resisted soon become necessity.
- Falsely praising a person is lying .
- All these things _ the care of the funeral arrangements, the establishment of the place of burial, the pomp of theceremonies_ are more of a solace for the living than an aid for the dead.
- Happiness consists in the attainment of our desire, and in our having only right desires.
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
- As usually happens, the man who has tried a bad doctor is afraid to turst even a good one.
