I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.