Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
What can't be cured must be endured.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Desire is the very essence of man.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
