Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Desire is the very essence of man.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.