“Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.”

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!

All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!

When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

Self-respect is the root of discipline