Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

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.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.