The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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

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

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

What's done can't be undone.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

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

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.