“Activity and sadness are incompatible.”

There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity.

We have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.