Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

Love is blind but not deaf.

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

I hate to tell you this,” Jason said, “but I think your leopard just ate a goddess.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.