Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

What can't be cured must be endured.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.