 The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. |
| The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. |
| It is natural to die as to be born. |
| Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. |
| Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. |
| It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. |
| In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. |
| Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. |
| Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. |
| The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. |
| For also knowledge itself is power. |
| Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. |
| Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
| Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. |
| It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. |
| Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. |
| Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. |
| Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. |
| There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. |
| Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. |
