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

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

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