Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.
I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
