Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.