Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.