Think globally, act locally.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.