It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Time wounds all heels.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Be curious, not judgmental.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.