That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
The strongest passion is fear.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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