Don't criticize what you can't understand.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

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

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.