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.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Appearances often are deceiving.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

I think, therefore I am.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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