Recently added

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

Leisure moments: each life well regulated has some such intervals, and he who cannot make way for them does not know how to live.

The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly.

It is the most foolish of all errors for young people of good intelligence to imagine that they will forfeit their originality if they acknowledge truth already acknowledged by others.

Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action.

I'm sorry for people who make a great to-do about the transitory nature of things and get lost in meditations of earthly nothingness. Surely we are here precisely so as to turn what passes into something that endures; but this is possible only if you can appreciate both.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

To every man posterity gives his due honour.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

There are occasions ... when all consolation is base and it is a duty to despair.

There is no outward mark of politeness that does not have a profound moral reason. The right education would be that which taught the outward mark and the moral reason together.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.