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

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

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

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The only real laughter comes from despair.