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

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.