One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.