Inspirational Sayings

Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever he wants to believe.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

For to believe that any one should be so fool-hardy, as to put himself into a state of war, without necessity, is to believe that he is a fool.

The world would be much more happy if men were to govern their passions by reason, than if they were to leave them unbridled.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success.

If a lion knew his own strength, it were hard for any man to rule him.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Man is so great that his greatness is known even in his knowing himself to be miserable.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The sole object of government ought to be the greatest happiness of the greatest possible number of the community.

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

I have been a soldier for twenty years, and in all that time, I have never seen a man so brave as to be afraid of a woman.

One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.

Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.