Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Far better it is to dare mighty things than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much
The dessolated Lover and disappointed Connections, are compelled by their Grief to reflect on the vanity of human Wishes and Expectations
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
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Demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
The great distance between us makes me anxious. I fear you will have too much upon your hands. The multiplicity of cares which surround you fill me with concern.
If you indulge yourself in the practise of any foible or vice in youth, it will gain strength with your years and become your conquerer.
Our life is along arduous quest after Truth, and the Soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
Facts are precisely what is lacking, all that exists consists of interpretations.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.