If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
The object of the superior man is truth.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
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.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
