I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.
