How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.Collection: Faith
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.Collection: Valentines
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.Collection: Knowledge
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.Collection: Education
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.Collection: Alone
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.Collection: Death
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.Collection: Intelligence
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.Collection: Marriage
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.Collection: Dreams
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.Collection: Marriage
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.Collection: Legal
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.Collection: Wisdom
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.Collection: Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.Collection: Marriage
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.Collection: Courage
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.Collection: Family
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.Collection: Sports
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.Collection: Future
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.Collection: Truth
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.Collection: Brainy
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.Collection: Business
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.Collection: Good
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.Collection: Best
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.Collection: Failure
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.Collection: Wisdom
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.Collection: Chance
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.Collection: Age
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.Collection: Education
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.Collection: Life
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.Collection: Sports
My trade and art is to live.Collection: Life
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.Collection: Courage
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.Collection: Fear
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.Collection: Death
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.Collection: Communication
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.Collection: Leadership
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.