There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

To teach is to learn twice.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Never cut what you can untie.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Children need models rather than critics.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Justice is the truth in action.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Space is the stature of God.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.