The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
Try to be of some use to others.
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences
We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.
When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.