Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Desire is the very essence of man.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.