Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

All great achievements require time.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

What can't be cured must be endured.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Time wounds all heels.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?