All great achievements require time.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

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

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.