The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

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.

Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.

Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it.