You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

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 secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Intelligence is a moral category.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.