I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.