I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Appearances often are deceiving.
