“Conscience is a thousand witnesses.”

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

A liar must have a good memory.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Lately we have had many losses.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

There is a great destructive force that comes upon us when we start comparing ourselves in the flesh with what we could be spiritually.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.

For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom.

Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.

The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human.