Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?
The best ideas are common property.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.