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

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

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

Resist much. Obey little.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

A friend to all is a friend to none

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.