I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
