I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
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.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.