Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

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

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

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