If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.