It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
What's done can't be undone.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
What can't be cured must be endured.