Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.