It is tact that is golden, not silence.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
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.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.