If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.