Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The object of the superior man is truth.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

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

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.