Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
I am a printer, and a printer of news; ... I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.
Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.