He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
