Every aquarium will eventually leak.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.