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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.