Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Appearances often are deceiving.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.