Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

I hurt my hand on his head. He has a very hard head.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

My parents found me very difficult to educate.