The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Intelligence is a moral category.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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

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

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

The only real laughter comes from despair.