Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
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