“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.