All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “Facts”. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
All wealth is the product of labor.
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.