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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.