Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
