For things to change, we must change.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.