You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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

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

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.