Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Deep learning doesn't shine.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.
Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.
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