Nothing is as easy as it looks.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Time wounds all heels.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

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

Think globally, act locally.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.