Intelligence is a moral category.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

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

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

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

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.