Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.

A diamond which is the hardest of stones not yielding unto steel emery or any other thing is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

Let age not envy draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.