Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
