A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.