Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Be curious, not judgmental.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

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

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.