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.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Without duty life is soft and bone less.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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.
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
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