All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

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

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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.