The meaning of things 

lies not in the things themselves, 

but in our attitude towards them.

In a democracy, 

the majority of the citizens 

is capable of exercising 

the most cruel oppressions 

upon the minority.

Without words, 

without writing 

and without books 

there would be no history, 

there could be no concept of humanity.

It is a fine seasoning for joy 

to think of those we love.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

All experience is an arch 

wherethrough gleams that untravelled world 

whose margin fades for ever and for ever 

when I move.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect 

is to make up one's mind about nothing, 

to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Imagination is the real and eternal world 

of which this vegetable universe 

is but a faint shadow.

The mind is its own place 

and in itself, 

can make a Heaven of Hell, 

a Hell of Heaven.

The mind unlearns with difficulty 

what it has long learned.

The great use of life 

is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, 

but the parent of all the others.

He that complies against his will 

is of his own opinion still.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The world of reality has its limits; 

the world of imagination is boundless.