The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
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.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.