Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.

Many become brave when brought to bay.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.