We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
Without duty life is soft and bone less.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
Justice is the truth in action.
Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
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