More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind..

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered..

There is no place more delightful than home..

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.].

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink..

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I beh….

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives..

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction..

Hunger is the best sauce..

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men..

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith..

Man is his own worst enemy..

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as so….

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one..

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command..

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.].

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty lette….

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature..

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception..

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind..

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows..