A friend to all is a friend to none

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Desire is the very essence of man.

A man is literally what he thinks.

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

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.