The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Intelligence is a moral category.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.