We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.

There are rich counsels in the trees.

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.