Friends are thieves of time.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.
Nothing is black or white.
I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
