All fool, or all philosopher. [ Proverb ]

Thrift is the philosopher's stone. [ Proverb ]

Thou more than stone of the philosopher! [ Byron ]

Content is the true philosopher's stone. [ Proverb ]

Every philosopher is cousin to an atheist. [ A. de Musset ]

It is not the beard that makes the philosopher. [ Proverb ]

It does not beseem a philosopher to be dejected. [ Cicero ]

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune. [ Landor ]

Contentment without money is the philosopher's stone. [ Lichtwer ]

To scoff at philosophy is to act as a true philosopher. [ Pascal ]

There is a medium betwixt all fool and all philosopher. [ Proverb ]

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death. [ Cicero ]

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. [ Hume ]

The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. [ Epictetus ]

If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist. [ Proverb ]

Diligence is the philosopher's stone, that turns everything to gold. [ N. Webster ]

Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold. [ Proverb ]

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

The man who enters his wife's dressing-room is either a philosopher, or a fool. [ Balzac ]

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead. [ D'Alembert ]

Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus. [ J. Johnson ]

The astronomer thinks of the stars, the naturalist of nature, the philosopher of himself. [ Fontenelle ]

I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold; it is, Pay as you go. [ Randolph ]

To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. [ Cowley ]

It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions and laying aside his prejudices. [ Addison ]

One who uses many periods is a philosopher; many interrogations, a student; many exclamations, a fanatic. [ J. L. Basford ]

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered. Opportunity! [ Moore ]

Time, the corrector when our judgments err, the test of truth and love; sole philosopher, for all besides are sophists. [ Byron ]

What is a philosopher? One who opposes nature to law, reason to usage, conscience to opinion, and his judgment to error. [ Chamfort ]

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man, disagreeable. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. [ Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman ]

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. [ Carlyle ]

The taste of beauty and the relish of what is decent, just, and amiable perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. [ Shaftesbury ]

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently, however they have writ the style of gods, and make a pish at chance and sufferance. [ William Shakespeare ]

The sense of beauty enters into the highest philosophy, as in Plato. The highest poet must be a philosopher, accomplished like Dante, or intuitive like Shakespeare. [ Gladstone ]

The difference between you and me, said a philosopher, is that you say to masked hypocrites, I know you, while I leave them with the idea that they have deceived me. [ Chamfort ]

To be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. [ Cowley ]

Oratory may be symbolized by a warrior's eye, flashing from under a philosopher's brow. But why a warrior's eye rather than a poet's? Because in oratory the will must predominate. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Diligence and perseverance are the composites of the philosopher's stone, and instances are not wanting wherein their application has transformed the poorest material into the purest gold. [ W. T. Burke ]

Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse. [ Mackenzie ]

A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a philosopher's stone, but it is a stone which the builders refuse. [ John Ruskin ]

Sydney Smith playfully says that commonsense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. [ Whipple ]

Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surfaces of the earth. [ Swift ]

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. [ Thoreau ]

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]