There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.