When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible