Compassion is the basis of morality.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Intelligence is a moral category.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

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