When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Without duty life is soft and bone less.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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.
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.