Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

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

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.