One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
