Where one door shuts another opens.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many scientific circumstantial evidence, not the whole and sole doer].

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.