Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

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

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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

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

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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