Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, Though I speak without a tongue. Nought but one thing can confound me, Many voices joining round me, Then I fret, and rave, and gabble, Like the labourers of Babel.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

Learn to think impartially.

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.

A person's character and their garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn; Yet juice of subtile virtue lies Within my cup of curious dyes.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.