Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

Emotions are some merciless attention seekers you know.You ignore them they destroy you.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

the only thing left to do is love

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.