Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

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

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

I think, therefore I am.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.