The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.