Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

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

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.