The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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