It is well to think well; it is divine to act well..

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time..

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men..

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves..

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place..

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and….

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse..

An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do no….

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . ..

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a ….

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head be….

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is..

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled..

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end….

There is nothing so costly as ignorance..

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exe….

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness..

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there..

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal..

Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest….

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast..