I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.

Difficulties were fires. If you kept them in check, you could learn from them. You simply had to know how to fan them the right way.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.