Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.