The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.

Wind is wind.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle!

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.

It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.

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