Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I'll always be poor in my mind.