One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Go with your bad self.

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.