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We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.
Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
You never gain something but that you lose something.
. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
The researcher is more memorable than the researched.
Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.
It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.
To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.
I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.
When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.
Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?
The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.
A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.
Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.
Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.