Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.
Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military suc...
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the wo...
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Who loses a day loses life.