“What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.”

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

When the image is new, the world is new.

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.