I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

What can't be cured must be endured.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!