Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal...

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people...