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

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.