Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.