If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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

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

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.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

A man is literally what he thinks.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little