The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.