In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
We have more than we use.
No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
Love is the essence of God.
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
Some people are born very far from home.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
It is a luxury to be understood.
Knowledge is the only elegance.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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