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

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

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

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

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.