People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.