Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

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

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.