The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.