Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.

Enmity dies when friendship is born.

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

He that is not jealous is not in love.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.