Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.