warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

we need deep cleansing of our thoughts on and often so that we can recharge our energy for our own health, happiness and purpose

There will be days that you don’t want to dress up and if you have some decent looking athletic wear, you can give the illusion that you’ve just been working out, as opposed to giving up on life.

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

We invent the past and remember the future.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.