It is tact that is golden, not silence.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

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

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.