He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.
Change in all things is sweet.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.