Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.