What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.