It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
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.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
For we walk by faith, not by sight