Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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

Time wounds all heels.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.