Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

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

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.