Pity is treason.

Pity is treason.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. read more

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every read more

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors read more

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.