“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

The Word of God isn’t for one particular season. It’s for every season. But in its specific application, it’s best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Insight must precede application.