The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
What can't be cured must be endured.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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.