Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
