Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

A man is literally what he thinks.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.