Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Linnaeus and cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old aristotle.
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
The march of the human mind is slow.
Fashion is architecture.
Mere parsimony is not economy.Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise,it costs nothing.
Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.