If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.
No man can have society upon his own terms.
You Life is a progress, and not a station.
The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the...
Fear always springsfrom ignorance.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
There is a crack in everything God has made.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.