posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Great necessities call out great virtues.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Without books, the world will be void.

I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within one’s own psyche?

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

There aren't any moral victories.

If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.

The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.