Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

We should love God and not His blessings

Doors of the future are open to those who know how to push them

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.

I don't believe in doing things just to do them.

A thinker is a person.

Life Will Never Be The Same Because There Had Never Been Anyone Like You...Ever in the World.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.