There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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

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.

All great achievements require time.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.