The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass…..nay, it is ratherlike and enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture. – Bacon

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. – Bacon

The mind is the man, and the knowledge of the mind. Bacon

The forehead is the gate of the mind. – Cicero

The more minds we have, the more original men do we discover there are common people find no difference between men. – Pascal

An open scent bottle soon loses its scent. An open mind is often a vacant mind. There is something to be said for corks. – Arnold Lunn

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up. – William Hazlitt

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. – Emerson

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds. – Macaulay

Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts. – Robert Browning

Mind is ever the ruler of the universe. – Plato

Nor less I deem that there are powers,

Which of themselves our minds impress

That we can feed this mind of ours

In a wise passiveness.        -    Wordsworth

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. – John Locke

In these bodies of ours, the mind is of more value than the hand; all our vigor is in that. – Ovid

Our purse shall be proud our garments poor;

For tis the mind that makes the body rich. – Shakespeare

A man’s body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin’s lining: – rumple the one, – you rumple the other. – Sterne

Merit is worthier than fame. – Bacon

Merit and good-breeding will make their way everywhere. – Lord Chesterfield

Man’s chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. – Samuel Johnson

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. – Pope

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. (Memoria est theausurs omnium rerum e custos.) – Cicero

Even the soles of our feet have got a memory of their own. – Sir Aurobindo

The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson

Memory, the daughter of attention, is the teeming mother of knowledge. – Tupper

Memory is necessary for all operations of the reason. – Pascal

You leave your memory as a flame to my lovely lamp of separation. – Rabindranath Tagore

Memory, the warder of the brain. – Shakespeare

Experience teaches that a good memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. – Montaigne

This memory brightens o’er the past,

As when the sun, concealed

Behind some cloud that near us hangs,

Shines on a distant field.                         – Longfellow

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. – Elbert Hubbard

Better by far you should forget and smile,

Than that you should remember and be sad. – Cheristina Rossetti

What better school for manners than the company of virtuous women. – David Hume

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained. – Machiavelli

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. – Mark Twain

Office changes manners. ( Oficion mudan constumbres.)

What were once vices are now the manners of the day? ( Quae fuerant vitia mores sunt.)

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. – Emerson

Everyone thinks himself a well-bred. – Lord Shaftesbury

Nurture and good manners makes man. – Unknown

Manners make the man. – Defoe

The difference is, that in the days of old

Men made the manners; manners now make men. – Byron

 The mystery of mysteries is to view machines making machines. – Benjamin

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. Emerson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the word of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. – J.S. Mill

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. – H.G. Wells

 Love is love’s reward. – Dryden

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. – Bulwer – Lytton

In love, loss and gain are harmonized. – Rabindranath Tagore

Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. – Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the noblest frailty of the mind. – Dryden

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light. – Carlyle

Love is a fine flower, but unity of consciousness is the root. – Sri Aurobindo

Love is the salt of life. – John Sheffield

The fist condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. – George Eliot

Love and a cough cannot be hid. – George Herbert

Love is like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life. – Douglas Jerrold

Whom we love best, to them we can say least. – John Ray

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – Shakespeare

In women pity begets love, in men love begets pity. – Churton

’Tis hard to be in love and to be wise – Nathaniel Lee

Love draws me one way, reason another. – Ovid

Analysis kills love, as well as other things. – John Brown

Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures. – Moliere

Man dreams of fame, while woman wakes to love. – Tennyson

Love lessens woman’s delicacy and increases man’s. – Jean Paul Richter

That you may be loved, be lovable. – Ovid

The only present love demand is love. – John Gay

The devils take me; if I think anything but love to be the object of love. – Fielding

Love for love is evilest bought. – Unknown

The sight of lovers feed those in love. – Shakespeare

Love’s a malady without a cure. – Dryden

Love, the sole disease thou canst not cure. – Pope

Love, the mild servant, makes a drunken master. – John Masefield

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. – George Herbert

He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his sides. – George Herbert

For love is heaven, and heaven is love – Scott

And love is love list when embalmed in tears. – Scott

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. – Robert Burton

Literature is the thought of thinking souls. – Carlyle

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. – Emerson

It is life that shakes and rocks us; it is literature which stabilizes and confirms. – H.W. Garrod

Literature is a very bad church, but a very good walking-stick. – Charles Lamb

Life’s but a means unto an end-that end.

Beginning, mean and end to all things-God. – P.J. Bailey

To enjoy life one should give up the lure of life. – Mahatma Gandhi

We have to build our own world with our own thoughts and energy of mind. – Rabindranath Tagore

Life is an ecstasy. – Emerson

Pain, which is the feeling of our fitness, is not a fixture in our life. – Rabindranath Tagore

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. – O. Henry

Our life consists partly in folly, and partly in wisdom. – Montaigne

Life is a fortress which neither you nor I know anything about. – Napoleon

There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mahatma Gandhi

Life is short and the art is long. – Hippocrates

The business of life is to go forward. – Samuel Johnson

We live, not as we wish, but as we can. – Menander

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. – Shakespeare

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. – Oscar Wilde

The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. – Oscar Wilde

He who loves his life loses it. – Dr.S. Radhakrishnan

Life and love are all a dream. – Burns

Old and young we are all on our last cuisse. – R.L. Stevenson

Only a life lived for others are a life worth-while. – Albert Einstein

In the morning of life, work, in the mid-day give counsel, in the evening pray. – Desiod

The art of life, of a poet’s life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. – H.D. Thoreau

Let us make hay while the sun shines. – Cervantes

What is life where living is extinct? – John Heywood

To him that lives well every from of life is good. – Samuel Johnson

May you live all days of your life? – Swift

The measure of a man’s life is the well-spending of it, and not the length. – Plutarch

We should strive, not to live long, but to live rightly. – Seneca

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. – Sheridan

Life is long if it is full. (Longa est vita, si plena est) – Seneca

Perhaps the perishing ephmeron enjoys a longer life than the tortoise. – Shelley

What sweet delight a quiet life affords. – William Drummond

They do not live but linger. – Robert Burton

To live a life half dead, a living death – Milton

Learn that the present hour alone is men. – Samuel Johnson

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet

Libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture are preserved and reposed. – Bacon

These are the tombs of such as cannot die. – George Crabbe

He that reveals in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all or admirable flavor. – William Godwin

Lies and lying

Ask me no question, and I’ll tell you no fibs. – Goldsmith

A lie grows in size [as it is repeated.] (Mensuraque ficti crescit.) – Ovid

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – R.L. Stevenson

It is the nature of a scoundrel to deceive by lying. (Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.) – Cicero

The mouth that lies slays the soul. – John Ray

One falsehood treads on the heels of another. (Fallacia Alia aliam trudit.) – Terence

He shall not prosper, who devised lies. – The Koran

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. – Framcis Bacon

He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying. – Montaigne

When they speak truth they are not believed. – Aristotle

The greater fool, the greater liar. – William Blake

All learning is vain except to know him and to serve him. – Guru Nanak

Learning by study must be won; ’twas ne’er entailed from sire to son. – Gay

Learning makes most men more stupid and foolish than they are by nature. – Shcopehauer

Learning is the ye of the mind. – Thomas Draxe

Learning men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountain-heads.

Learning is but an adjunct to our self

And where we are our learning likewise is. – Shakespeare

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. – Thomas Fuller

Learning makes the wise wiser, and the fool more foolish. – John Ray

Learning teaches more in one year than experience in twenty. – Roger Ascham

Much learning doth make thee mad. – New Testament

Much learning shows how little mortals know;

Much wealth how little wordings can enjoy. – Young