Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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