If a man is gracious to strangers, it shows up that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them.
I am only one, but stilI am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I CAN do.
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined;
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Speak gently; 'tis a little thing
Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Fame is the aggregrate of misunderstandings that collect around a new name.
Our greatest duty is to help others ~ and if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them?
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands it far better than we do.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say ~ but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and, therefore, brothers.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
If God made it, eat it: if man messed with it, let it alone!
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is there a man who has so much to be out of danger?
Laws are like cobwebs, for any trifling or powerless thing falls into them, they hold it fast; but if a thing of any size falls into them, it breaks the mesh and escapes.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
No sleep till morn, when Youth
and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
Dropped in the heart's deep well