By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
the greatest want of the world is the want of men, men who will not be bought or sold.
men who in their inmost souls are true and honest
men who do not fear to call sin by its right name
men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pool.
men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
quote by Ellen Gould White