In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

All of the reasons we decided to part, elude me now.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Spend some quiet time each day to get closer to your positive inner-self. It is always calling for your undivided attention.

We eat breads, and we eat it with butter.While some brothers, starve for water and leave near the gutter.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.