“Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.”

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler’s.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

Intellect-brain force.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor’s hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Families are a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.

If you’re sick, if you’re struggling, if you’re worried about how you’re going to get through the day – we will not abandon you. We will not leave you to face these challenges alone.

The Lord does not abandon us! Even if we are men and women ‘of little faith.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.