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

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

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.