No wind favors he who has no destined port.
Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.
Philosophy is doubt.
There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
آدمی از هیجانات سوزان، ناگزیر به تب های سوزان می جهد
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.