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.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

What's done can't be undone.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!