Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize 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.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
