Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

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

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.