The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
Less good from genius we may find than that from perseverance flowing; so have good grist at hand to grind, and keep the mill a-going.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.