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

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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 was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

The lie is a condition of life.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.