Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
A little doubt is better than total credulity
We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.