The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Only the great power of love can make you great.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.

I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and claimed it to be changed me.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.