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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
No one is so accursed by fate, no one is so utterly desolate, but some heart, though unknown, responds unto his own.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
To be strong is to be happy.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages, running deep beneath external nature, give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the laborers on the surface do not even dream.
So Nature deals with us, and takes away our playthings one by one, and by the hand leads us to rest.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Study to be quiet.
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?
Patience is powerful.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless, inattentive roving.
True fortitude I take to be quiet possession of a man’s self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way.
Some persons depress their own minds, despond at the first difficulty; and conclude that making any progress in knowledge, farther than serves their ordinary business, is above their capacities.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed of all other virtues.
The best way to come to truth being to examine things as really they are, and not to conclude they are, as we fancy of ourselves, or have been taught by others to imagine.
Let us put the ideas of our mind, just as we put things of the laboratory, to the test of experience.
Suppose a neighbor should desire to light a candle at your fire, would it deprive your flame of light, because another profits by it?
