Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.