Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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.

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

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.