Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
