Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if...
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscie...
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.