Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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.

There is no friendship, without forgiveness.

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

Might was the measure of right.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

We may not always finish what we start but God always finishes what He starts.