The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

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

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.