Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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.
Time wounds all heels.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.