“No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else’s.’ For”

“confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.”

“Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.”

“She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.”

“I talk to myself,” he had once explained to his minder. “I have conversations with myself. I debate with myself.” He remembered smiling. “Sometimes I even win the arguments.”

“Mankind must without a doubt be the most conceited race in the universe, for who else believes that God has nothing better to do than sit around all day and help him out of tight spots?” It”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover”

“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.”

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”

“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.”

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.”

“If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.”

“Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.”

“An empty desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.”

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”

“He who hesitates is lost.”

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

“Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.”

“What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.”

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;”

“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”

“Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.”

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”

“True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation”

“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”

Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.”

“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”

“Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.”

“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.”

“And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform,

“We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”

“But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.”

“I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”