“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
“Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
“The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.”
“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?”
“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.”
“People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
“The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.”
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
“He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.”
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.”
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”
“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.”
“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”
“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.”
“Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.”
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --''Let there be truth between us two forevermore.''”
“The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
“He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.”
“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”