If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
Desire is the very essence of man.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
