All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.