As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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 are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
