Elegance is inferior to virtue.

All the knowledge I possess 

everyone else can acquire, 

but my heart is all my own.

When liberty is mentioned, 

we must always be careful to observe 

whether it is not really the assertion of private interests 

which is thereby designated.

Good sense about trivialities 

is better than 

nonsense about things that matter.

Words are also seeds, 

and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, 

they grow and bring forth after their kind.

If religion were true, 

its followers would not try to bludgeon their young 

into an artificial conformity; 

but would merely insist 

on their unbending quest for truth, 

irrespective of artificial backgrounds 

or practical consequences.

By education most have been misled; 

So they believe, because they were bred. 

The priest continues where the nurse began, 

And thus the child imposes on the man.

Solitude, 

though it may be silent as light, 

is like light, 

the mightiest of agencies; 

for solitude is essential to man. 

All men come into this world alone 

and leave it alone.

The more opinions you have, 

the less you see.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Life has a practice of living you, 

if you don't live it.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

To strive, to seek, to find, 

and not to yield.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, 

nor obeys.

There is no quality in this world 

that is not what it is 

merely by contrast. 

Nothing exists in itself.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.