The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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