“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
God“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
Happiness“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
God“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
Imagination“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
Men“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”
God“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
Death“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
Beauty“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
Nature“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”
Best“Acorns were good until bread was found.”
Good“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”
Money“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Wisdom“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”
Good“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
Nature“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
Truth“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”
Art“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”
Strength“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
Beauty“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
Knowledge“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
Beauty“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
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