We do not kill an Iraqi.
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Art is significant deformity.
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.
There can only be two basic loves. . . the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.