One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
. . . the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.
Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.
Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart. . . ?