What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Wisdom begins at the end.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

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

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.