Each man makes his own shipwreck.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skilled to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

'Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common; But surely he's without excuse Who steals a common from the goose.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.