Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.