Quotes to inspire and reflect

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life we are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

No one is as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, and find your eternity in each moment.

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results it is foolish even to desire it.

Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

What is art Nature concentrated.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.