Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

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

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.