To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A friend to all is a friend to none
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
