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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

All that counts in life is intention.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.