Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
— William Hazlitt
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
