Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.