That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Modern formulaic society will try to make you "normal, " rushing to call pseudoscientific anything you can do that they can’t.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Building bridges requires greater effort than building walls.

There’s no such thing as a wrong note.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.