The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action. Wisdom guides whether to act or not, and if so how. Sometimes darkness is overwhelming and intelligent action is required. Sometimes silence and inaction is required, but a silence which is the result of intelligence is different from that born of ego states such as pride, fear and laziness.

Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)