And it certainly wasn’t a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward.

Anger may seem to be a source of energy, but it’s blind.

The brightest candles burn out faster

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

...if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

Girls should never be afraid to be smart

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom