I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

A precedent embalms a principle.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.