I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
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.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.