Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
There is no nature at an instant.
The motive of success is not enough.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know. "
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.