It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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.
What's done can't be undone.
Time wounds all heels.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
