A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

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

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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